George Westwater
Software Engineer Director at Westwater Consulting Ltd
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGeorge Westwater is a software engineering director with a decade-long background building resilient, domain-driven systems across streaming, gambling, and public sector platforms. He combines hands-on Scala expertise (cats-effect, zio, http4s) and cloud-native deployment experience (AWS, ECS, DynamoDB, Terraform, CI/CD) with a strong commitment to pair programming, TDD, and cross-skilling teammates. At Disney Streaming he helped power identity, profiles and experimentation for Disney+, and at William Hill he led development of a Europe-wide self-exclusion platform and its CI pipelines. As founder-director of Westwater Consulting he translates enterprise needs into pragmatic microservices and observability practices. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful technical planning that aligns with business goals and for mentoring others into full-stack, production-ready engineering. Based in England, he blends deep backend craftsmanship with a knack for operationalising safe, testable deployments.
4 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Middlesex University
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
automation10
infrastructure10
scale10
ansible10
chef-infra10
devops10
testing9
spec9
tdd9
inspec8
compliance8
auditing8
audit8
security8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chef/architecture-center
Oct 2023 - Sep 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 3 branches in 10 months
chef/system-demo
Aug 2023 - Feb 2024
Scripts and notes for giving product system demos and workshops
Contributions:44 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
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